New Writing Series Winter 2012, continued.

Charles Bernstein is author of Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays & Inventions (University of Chicago Press, 2011), All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2010), Blind Witness: Three American Operas (Factory School, 2008); Girly Man (Chicago Press, 2006), and My Way: Speeches and Poems (Chicago, 1999). From 1978-1981 he co-edited, with Bruce Andrews. L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine. In the 1990s, he co-founded and directed the Poetics Program at the State University of New York – Buffalo. He teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is co-director of PennSound.

Eileen Myles will give a reading of recent work at 7:00pm, and at 8:00pm, she will give a writing craft talk…

These events are free and open to the public. Interested students are welcome and encouraged to attend both or either event

Books on Sales at the UCSD Bookstore and Book Sales/Signing at Event

EILEEN MYLES was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and moved to New York City in 1974 to be a poet. Snowflake/different streets, a double book of poems and her twelfth poetry collection is out now from Wave Books. Eileen’s Inferno: a poet's novel, her third collection of fiction, was published in 2010 and The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art (2009) received a Warhol/Creative Capital art writing grant in 2007. In 2010 Eileen received the Shelley Prize for her poetry. She writes about books, and art and culture for a wide variety of publications including Art Forum, Book Forum, and Parkett and she blogs on Art in America and Harriet’s sites. She’s teaching in Columbia’s graduate program this spring. Eileen's a Professor Emeritus in UCSD’s writing program. Please visit her at eileenmyles.com.

Lydia Davis is the author of six books of fiction, including the story collections Almost No Memory, Varieties of Disturbance, and Collected Stories, and a novel, The End of the Story; she has also published a number of chapbooks and a large body of French translations, most notably Proust's Swann's Way and, just this year, Flaubert's Madame Bovary. She is a Macarthur Fellow, has won a Whiting Award, and was nominated for the National Book Award and Pen/Hemingway Award. She teaches writing at SUNY Albany, where she is also Writer-In-Residence.